cosmographical
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In the past, most cosmographical theories were concocted by mathematicians sitting in quiet rooms and struggling with streams of abstractions.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Arabians adopted not only the ideas of the ancients, but also the fundamental notions of the cosmographical system of the Greeks.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake
To these may now be added Leonardo Dati's cosmographical history in octave stanzas, the Schiavo da Bari's aphorisms on morality, and Pucci's terza rima version of Villani's Chronicle.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
The cosmographical description forms the last three pages of the letter.
From The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America by Henry Cruse Murphy
He had perhaps already begun his studies in a number of works, especially the Book of Marco Polo and the Imago Mundi of Pierre d’Ailly, by which his cosmographical and geographical conceptions were largely moulded.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
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